The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-22
TIE LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
Attempted Assassination of a Judge aHd
His Son at Petersburg, Va.
Nurder OF a Mining Boss at MinersvilAo
Pa-Tho London Railroad Wreck
The Way They EnfOrOs the
Liquor Law In MAlno1


AT late hour last night Q c0wardly
vttempt was made to asssssinate Judge
Jones and his son William. while they
were returning to this city from Ches,
toEfield Court House, where they had
gone to argue the case of Royal Owens
convicted Of the betrayal Of Margaret
Smith. There has been great deal 0l
prejudice manifested 10 the case, and
when Judge Jones and his son had gone
only few miles from the Court House.
they were fred npOn from smtuSh.
Neither was injured. Judge Jones feels
confident that the party who fred the
shot did so because OF his defense or
Owens.
MURDER AT MINERsVILLE, PA.
NINERsylLLE Pa, Ssprembsr H.
ISpec all-There IS great ex,itemen
mere over the murder of Mr.. james, sue
Ere boss st the Glen Carbon Colliery.
The crime was committed early yester
day morning within 3 sh lrt dlstanc3 Of
the Colliery. The urderer was con-
cealed In q olump of bushes, and with a
charge, consisting Of buckshot. fairly
riddlpd James body. The wOIBmen were
notified, and In short time 100 men
were searching for the ASIA sin James
died at noon today. He leaves a wife
and five children. Before James died,
he made a statement that Tom Brennan
the "BOatman," shot him. There are
niue men In the county named Tom
Brenna I, and eac I has ONE app p4llatiOn
BY which he is distinguished. Brennan
has been jailed; be declares he is innO'
cent.
TuR MINI AMI RAILROAD WRECK
LONDON, September 17.-[5pecial j
The train which was wrecked on The
Midland road, yesterday, was loaded
with eXcuTsiOnists on their way TO Wit
ness the DOncaster races. The raFt eX'
press, going the other way, cut through
the excursion tTain and Immediately
the air filled with the shrieks Of the
wounded and the heartrendeTing cries
of the dying. Many we're shocklngly
mangled ana nun hPr were decapitai
ed aud disem6Oweled. The dead were
removed to q neigt boring meadow to
await Identification The express
driver, Taylor, Ia accused Of running
beyond rhe danger signals, but Taylor
Insists that no such signals were dia.
PLAYED. The killed are numbered 81 %
and the injured 6
ENFORCING THE LIQUOR Law
AUGUSTA, Me. Sept. Ill special =
The liquor lGw IL bstlg enfOi GEO In ;nIs
county az never before, the indictments
of the grand jury made public 81 cut OF
the I01 Whicn are for liquor selling
in Ksnnebsc county, Stale Constable
Stevenson. recently appointed by Gov
BldWell to enforce th8 prOhib-
itOry law, made a seizure OF beer In this
city Monday evening, and the saWe
night his building at Clinton was burn
ed. 1t is charged by the saloon keepers
agents the Republican leaders are urg-
ing the enforcement Of the DrohibitOry
law.
CRUEL MURDER.
GREENFIELD, MASS, September l6-
ISpeclai. IA horrible murder was COM
mitted here between 12 and O'Clock
Friday morning. Mrs. Patrick Murray,
whose husband has been working on
the stone crusher at the new jail, was
found at the foot of fifteen foot ma
sOnry wall, close beside the Fitcl :
burg railroad, in the center OF
a thickly settled part of the village
known as the tough End." She as
conscious but terribly cut on the h
which was also badly crushed. Two
wounds on the head were fully an inch
deep The woman said she was assault
ed by two persons and resisted them.
She died at 2:15 3. ID. The murderers
are still at large. Her husband has
been drunk for week or more and was
drunk in bed when she was brought
home. A fellow named Nulty was ar.
rested as witness this morning.
EIGHT THOUSAND COOKERS TO GO OUT.
FITIsBURG, Sept. l6-[ Special, IA
circular has been Issued by the Coke
Workers Association to the fact that
all c0kers, who are not working 0nder
the q. G. Frick scale, suspend work on
Monday next. The circular recites that
the cOkers resum I'd work, after the
twelve weeks strike, with guarantee
from the op ,raiors that they would sign
q satisfactory sliding scale after the re
sumption; that all of the operators ex
cept q. G. FTick & Co., have broken
faith and refused t. sign scale giving
advantage to the workmen. They new
stipulste that the suspension continue
until all the operators sign the Frick
scale. The strike will throw about
5000 men out OF employment.
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED.
LONDON, Sept. 16. 16.-[speciall- dread
full collision occurred today on the
Midland Railway. A train filled with
excurslonis 8, who were going to DON
caster to witness the races at mat place,
collided th another train and was
wrecked. The accounts Of the disaster
thus far raceived, state that twenty Of
the excursionists were killed and many
injured.
CABLE RATES REDUCED.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16th.- Special. The
Postal Telegraph Cable Company has
issued the fol owing notice: On and
after today, the Commercial Cable rate
will be twelve cents word TO Great
Britain, Ireland and France, and fifteen
cents word to Germany.
l.. d, PARKER, Gen'l. SuDt,